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Movies that feel likeOne Week (1920)

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

If you loved One Week, the closest films we have are Seven Chances (1925), Our Hospitality (1923) and Sons of the Desert (1933). All three share One Week's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Genevieve (1953).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Buster Keatonwittyplayful
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Seven Chances
1925 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 94%★ 7.8comedy · romance

The same hand behind both of them: Buster Keaton

The difference: Sits closer to romance than One Week does

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

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Our Hospitality
1923 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 97%★ 7.7comedy · romance · thriller

Both are Buster Keaton's work, and they rhyme

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

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Sons of the Desert
1933 · dir. William A. Seiter
🍅 100%★ 7.5comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

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Zero for Conduct
1933 · dir. Jean Vigo
🍅 94%★ 7.2comedy · drama

Common ground: short film

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

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Sherlock Jr.
1924 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 87%★ 8.1action · comedy · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: silent film

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

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The Bank Dick
1940 · dir. Edward F. Cline
🍅 96%★ 7.1comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1940s show

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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Genevieve
1953 · dir. Henry Cornelius
🍅 86%★ 7comedy

Comedy built on play, twice over

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 · dir. Charles Reisner
🍅 96%★ 7.8comedy · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: silent film

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

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Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · dir. Satoshi Miki
★ 7.2comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

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The Green Butchers
2003 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 63%★ 7.2comedy

Both sit in the same playful register

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

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Real Life
1979 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 84%★ 7comedyRent or buy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".

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Used Cars
1980 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 77%★ 6.7comedyPrime Video

Comedy in the same key

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

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